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__in any aitempted threata, intimidations, or coercich of any “ E nature, whether bconomic or otherwise”. United States v, Deal, W.I.La. 1961, 6 Race Rel. L. Rep. 474. Tle parallel between the defendants’ intimidation by ! -and . economic coercion in Beatty/ in Deal, and the defendants’ boyeott ind other activities in this case is too patent a ie _ te be spelled out. Beatty and Deal also illustrate a wot ‘ . ia 4 ( ‘\ ‘" + pyineiple of enormous importance in the enforcement of civil a . rights: acts otherwise lawful may become unlawful and be enjoined under Section 1971, if the purpose and effect of \ the acts is to interfere with the right to vote. In United States v. Board of Education of Greene County, Mississippi, 1964, 332 F. 24 40, the Fifth Circuit . affirmed the holding below that the government failed to prove that the alleged intimidation was for the purpose of interfering with the right to vote, But, as Judge Tuttle explained in United States v. Bruce (not yet re= ; f ‘ported, decided Nov. 16, 1965, No. 22028}, the Court in the Greene County case assumed; . “Whereas a school bosrd mignt, under the circumstances preser: in wnat case, have legally failed to renew a teacher's con- tract for any reason or fcr no reason at all, if it in fact declined to renew the 1 i . os [teacher's] certificate as a means of , A coercing or intimidating the teacher as - , _ . " to her right to vote, such conduct would be prohibited under the Act." In United States v. Bruce twenty-eight white persons in Wileox County, Alabama, notified Lonnie Brown, a Negro in- ‘surance collector, to stay off land owned or controlled by then. * of